AD. 1895.]
PRIVATE VEHICLES LICENSING.
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ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1895.
AN ORDINANCE for regulating the Licensing of Private Vehicles.
A.D. 1895.
Ordinance No. 13 of 1895.
[30th May, 1895.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Private Vehicles Licensing Ordinance, 1895.
2. In this Ordinance-
(1). Private Vehicle includes all carriages, carts, wagons, trucks, and all other vehicles which do not require to be licensed under the Licensing Ordinance, 1887, except private jinrickshas, private chairs, bicycles, tricycles, perambulators, trucks, and cars in use on tramways, and such other vehicles as the Governor-in-Council may from time to time exempt from licence in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2). Licence means a licence required by this Ordinance.
(3.) [New sub-sections added by Ord. 25/11 § 2 (ii)]
3. The owner of every private vehicle shall take out a licence for the same.
4. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make, and, when made, alter, add to, or repeal, regulations under this Ordinance-
(1.) for the issue of licences, the forms thereof, the fees to be paid therefor, their periods and conditions, and the officer who is to issue them: and
(2.) for the regulation of all private vehicles, whether licensed or not, their use, the means to be adopted for identifying such vehicles and their owners, and the traffic carried on by means of such vehicles.
5. (1.) The granting of any such licence shall be in the discretion of the officer appointed to issue the same.
(2.) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of a licence may appeal to the Governor, who may direct the proper officer to issue such licence.
6. The following acts shall be deemed to be offences against this Ordinance :-
(1.) using any private vehicle for which a licence is required without having a valid licence for the same;
(2.) any breach of the conditions of a licence;
(3.) furnishing untrue particulars of any licence.